Here is a b*tch and moan from a Jets fan. Basically he's saying that it is written in the Tablets of Fate that the Jets will never ever win anything important ever again. So, the Bungles could probably play their practice squad, and the Jets would still lose!

January 2, 2010
Op-Ed Columnist
The Miracle That Never Happens
By BOB HERBERT
Here we go again, said the Jets fan.

That would be me.

Iíve been fortunate enough to avoid drug addiction and alcoholism, and I gave up smoking cigarettes a very long time ago. But I am a Jets fan. And being a New York Jets football fan is an illness. So keep that in mind, and please be kind as you read this.

There was a single moment of glory on Jan. 12, 1969, when the great Joe Namath, with his white shoes and long hair and a right arm that could write poetry with a football, led the Jets to the greatest upset in pro football history: defeating the mighty Colts of Baltimore in the Super Bowl, 16-7.

Google it. Youíll see.

I was young and thought that was the start of something big. Once you take that first hit of a powerful drug, you think that exalted, blissful feeling can be repeated. You can spend the rest of your life trying to experience it again.

I should have known the following December that something freakish was afoot. All the Jets had to do was win one more game ó just defeat the Kansas City Chiefs ó to go back to the Super Bowl. Behind 6-3 in the fourth quarter, the defending world champions had a first down on the Chiefsí 1-yard line. The 1-yard line!

It was cold. The wind was blowing. And the beginning of decades of unimaginable, humiliating futility for Jets fans was upon us. The Jets could not advance the ball that 1 yard.

They tried and tried and tried again. It never happened. They got within a foot of the goal line, but they couldnít cross it. They lost, and the Chiefs went to the Super Bowl.

There is something otherworldly about the perennial ineptitude of this franchise. Gerald Eskenazi, a former sportswriter for The Times, called his history of the team ďGang Green: An Irreverent Look Behind the Scenes at Thirty-Eight (Well, Thirty-Seven) Seasons of New York Jets Futility.Ē That was in 1998, and nothing has changed since then.

I bring this up because now, more than four, long decades after their one brief moment in the sun, Jets fans are setting themselves up for yet another brutal disappointment. A couple of weeks ago, the coach, Rex Ryan, mistakenly thought that his team, playing terribly, had blown any chance to make the playoffs. It turned out that he was wrong.

Then the Jets went on to beat the undefeated Indianapolis Colts, and if they beat the Cincinnati Bengals in a nationally televised game on Sunday night they will enter the postseason countdown to the Super Bowl.

And thatís the specialty of this team. Itís not just that itís been bad for most of the past half-century. The insidious aspect is that time and again the Jets rise from the ashes of their awfulness, just enough to offer the hope that something wonderful is about to happen. And the fans get all pumped and crazy, and then the roof caves in.

We should know better, but we canít help ourselves.

There was the time, for example, when my heroes were playing the Dolphins in Miami and the winner of that game would go on to the Super Bowl. The Jets had a good team that year, and I figured they had Miamiís number. But the weather gods opened the skies over South Florida and it rained for days. It poured. The Dolphins refused to protect the field with a tarpaulin. The result was a vast basin of mud that paralyzed the Jetsí high-powered offense. Miami won 14-0.

Things often happen with the Jets that seem inexplicable. After one of their typically dismal seasons, they fired the coach, Pete Carroll, who had lost his last five games. He was replaced with a coach, Rich Kotite, who had lost his last seven.

The owner, the late Leon Hess, said he had made the switch because he wanted to ďwin now.Ē

That didnít happen. Kotite was a spectacularly terrible coach.

Jets fans have come to take a certain twisted pride in their teamís horrendous history, competing to see who has the worst and most vivid memories. Years ago, whenever I had trouble sleeping, Iíd listen to Joe Benigno, who then was the overnight guy on WFAN sports radio and as big a Jets fan as I am. Heíd tell hilarious stories of his extreme anguish over the teamís amazing capacity to find creative ways to lose. The bigger the game, the more innovative the effort.

So here we go again.

Long-suffering Jets fans will be glued to their televisions on Sunday night, hoping for the win that will shoot their team into the playoffs. So we can begin praying again for the miracle that never happens.
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decleater

01-02-2010, 03:23 PM

I wouldn't bet even for fun on any game tomorrow as it's a total crap shoot. Had the Steelers taken care of business when they should have we would already have locked up the division and not be looking for outside help to limp into the show.

SanAntonioSteelerFan

01-02-2010, 03:35 PM

I wouldn't bet even for fun on any game tomorrow as it's a total crap shoot. Had the Steelers taken care of business when they should have we would already have locked up the division and not be looking for outside help to limp into the show.

I know, DeCleater, you are 100% right. But if we DO limp in, and then Polamalu and Kemo are healthy the week after, we can beat any team in the AFC - yes, including the Colts in Indy (with Polamalu). A win and some help tomorrow - then watch out!

decleater

01-02-2010, 03:49 PM

I wouldn't bet even for fun on any game tomorrow as it's a total crap shoot. Had the Steelers taken care of business when they should have we would already have locked up the division and not be looking for outside help to limp into the show.

I know, DeCleater, you are 100% right. But if we DO limp in, and then Polamalu and Kemo are healthy the week after, we can beat any team in the AFC - yes, including the Colts in Indy (with Polamalu). A win and some help tomorrow - then watch out!
Oh yeah, don't get me wrong! I'm all for limping in if it's in the stars! Go Steelers!

MaxAMillion

01-02-2010, 07:09 PM

What evidence is there that Troy P will be healthy. I just as soon see him held out until next season. This is not a playoff team with all the injuries. The depth is not there this year.

SanAntonioSteelerFan

01-02-2010, 09:58 PM

This just in - the Jets punter may be out for the game. Their placekicker, Feeley will punt. In nine years he has never punted.

JETS PUNTER HURTS HAMSTRING The Jets probably hope they will not need him much against the Cincinnati Bengals Sunday night, but punter Steve Weatherford injured his right hamstring in practice Friday, the final one before the Jetsí biggest game of the season. Coach Rex Ryan said Weatherford will be listed as questionable, and just to be cautious, the Jets will work out punters on Saturday. The weather probably will not help his comfort level: the forecast calls for temperatures in the teens at game time, with a wind chill near zero.
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SteelAbility

01-02-2010, 10:04 PM

That read was totally hysterical. :lol: Maybe there is hope for us after all.

Wolfhound45

01-02-2010, 11:41 PM

Funny read!

I want the Steelers to get into the 2009 playoffs as much as the next guy. However...

Having to count on the Bengals and the Patriots* to help us makes me SICK to my stomach.

DHSF

01-03-2010, 12:55 AM

Remember the playoff game Ben's rookie season? The Jet's missed 2 very makeable FG's before Reed came on to kick the game winning FG in overtime.

fordfixer

01-03-2010, 09:52 AM

This just in - the Jets punter may be out for the game. Their placekicker, Feeley will punt. In nine years he has never punted.

JETS PUNTER HURTS HAMSTRING The Jets probably hope they will not need him much against the Cincinnati Bengals Sunday night, but punter Steve Weatherford injured his right hamstring in practice Friday, the final one before the Jetsí biggest game of the season. Coach Rex Ryan said Weatherford will be listed as questionable, and just to be cautious, the Jets will work out punters on Saturday. The weather probably will not help his comfort level: the forecast calls for temperatures in the teens at game time, with a wind chill near zero.
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You o.k. or do we need to get you some help? :lol: :lol: :lol: